COMPONENT PARTS OF A GARDEN 199 



RECREATION GROUNDS AND PUBLIC 

 PARKS 



CERTAIN elements enter into the planning of 

 recreation grounds and public parks that are 

 absent from private grounds. To begin with, the 

 designer is generally free from the influence of 

 building, a bandstand or public memorial taking 

 its place, if at all. 



The need for shade and ample sitting and walk- 

 ing spaces is immensely important, for which the 

 landscape style is more adaptable than any other. 

 All that has been written of landscape gardening 

 is applicable to the laying out of public parks. 

 Grass spaces for games should be a good deal 

 larger than the dimensions the game requires in 

 order to allow some shifting of stumps and goal 

 posts, and belts and clumps of shade trees should 

 separate one set of games from another. 



Eight feet is a minimum width for paths, and they 

 can be as much wider as their length and probable 

 use require. If there is need for a main road across 

 the park this may fitly take the form of an avenue, 

 double if possible, with a made road in the centre 

 and grass ways either side. Along a wide road 

 seats can be set without special provision, but 

 when less than 12 ft. wide sites for seats should be 

 recessed 6 ft. to allow people to sit and stretch 

 their lgs without being an inconvenience to 

 wallers. Such recesses can be made very pictur- 



